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The QC, Vol. 85, No. 07 • October 22, 1998

1998_10_22_p001

uaker
October 22,1998
ampus
The Voice Of The Campus Since 1914
■ Clubbed
to Death?
Find out which downtown Los
Angeles comedy clubs are killer-
and which are dead boring.
HAT£ WAV£
Does the recent explosion of
racially-charged incidents on
campus qualify as free speech?
SPORTS.
■ Coach Class
Head Coach Bob
Owens lives and
breathes Poet football—
we found out what a
week ofhis life is like.
■ The Nude
Deal
The naked truth
about the steamiest and sweatiest /#
event on campus.
WARNING: Explicit photographs of art exhibit on page 6
TongQugwieandi
of racialiyjcharqe
lave been the targets
Si
Targets of ]
Crank Calls,
Hate E-mai
mHARASSMENT
by Liz Valsamis
QC News Editor
nd
n!-
of
Three female
two Chinese visit
received racist era
days after the raci
e-mail was sent to /
fessor of Sociolo
Hao [see QC Issue
The students—
Yang and sophoi
Chan and the third
did not want to be
and the visiting sch
Ping and Tong (
ceived the calls i
morning hours of \
12. The suspected p
male in all cases,!
identified.
"I think we ha
■ RELATED STORY
Hundreds of students, faculty
and staff turned out during last
week's Free Speech Friday to
rally around Asst. Professor of
Sociology Zhidong Hao several days after he received a
racially charged hate e-mail.
page 5
Millman To Leave Whittier in January;
Appointed President of Knox College
■ ADMINISTRATION
by Chris Ziegler
QC Editor-in-Chief
Provost and Dean of Faculty
Richard Millman will be leaving
Whittier College on Jan. 1, 1999
to assume his new position as President of Knox College in Gales-
burg, Illinois. The announcement
was made by the Board of Trustees on Friday, Oct. 16.
President James Ash, Jr. and
the Trustees will work with the
faculty and students to select an
interim Provost sometime during
the next few weeks. After Ash
retires, the suceeding College president will make a permanent Provost appointment.
Millman, who started at Whittier as Vice President of Academic
Affairs and Dean of Faculty in
1995 and is currently second only
to Ash in the administrative hierarchy, said that he always intended
to leave Whittier for a college pres-
Richard S. Millman.
idency after three to five years of
service to take what he called "the
next step up."
After rejecting several offers
from other colleges during his
Whittier career, Millman chose
Knox because of its scholastic
standards and the opportunity to
helm a multi-million dollar fund-
raising effort, he said. Like Whittier, Knox is engaged in a capital
campaign of its own, the $125
million "Knox Now" initiative.
| "I really wanted a liberal arts
I experience with a talented, dedi-
I cated faculty, which Whittier and
| Knox share," he said. "I knew the
1 high quality ofthe institution and
s that they wanted someone with
lots of academic background as
well as someone who wanted to
help with a capital campaign."
The top-level administrative
shake-ups could prove to be an
"excellent opportunity,"Ash said,
himself slated to leave Whittier
College at the end of the spring
semester.
"The College is financially
stable and all the indicators of
institutional health are positive,"
Ash said. "For that reason, I think
it's an ideal year for the College to
seek new leadership."
Millman will continue as
WhittierCollege Provost and Dean
of Faculty until the end ofthe fall
semester, though he is already
beginning to address his new pres-
See MILLMAN, page 7
Community Combats Campus Racism
■ ON CAMPUS
by Sonia Podvin
QCAsst. News Editor
In continued response to recent racially motivated expressions of hate on the Whittier College campus, concerned students
and faculty members spent
Wednesday, Oct. 21, attempting
to deal with the effects of the
incidents.
Every faculty member was
encouraged to administer a "Teach
In," either devoting the duration
of their class sessions to or at least
mentioning the recent social issues on the campus. Participation
by faculty members ranged from
leading heated discussions that
lasted through the class session to
merely conducting their classes
as usual.
Professors were also encouraged to promote students' attendance at a more informal "Teach
Out" forum on racism and dis-
Susanne Weil held class outdoors to discuss racial issues.
crimination in the Turner Hall
lounge at 7:00 p.m. on the evening
of Oct. 21. There students, faculty
and administration congregated to
explore active and permanent
ways to change campus sentiments
about discrimination.
The meeting included interdisciplinary faculty lectures on
racism and discrimination, student
discussion of change in small
groups and a candlelight march
across campus.
During the standard class
hours that were occupied by the
Teach-In, sociology, history and
language faculty members especially found occasion to integrate
their course material with the occurrences on the College campus.
In the Elementary Spanish class
of Assistant Professor of Modern
Language Doreen O'Connor-Gomez, the students discussed issues
of race and status in Latin American culture.
See RACISM page 7

uaker
October 22,1998
ampus
The Voice Of The Campus Since 1914
■ Clubbed
to Death?
Find out which downtown Los
Angeles comedy clubs are killer-
and which are dead boring.
HAT£ WAV£
Does the recent explosion of
racially-charged incidents on
campus qualify as free speech?
SPORTS.
■ Coach Class
Head Coach Bob
Owens lives and
breathes Poet football—
we found out what a
week ofhis life is like.
■ The Nude
Deal
The naked truth
about the steamiest and sweatiest /#
event on campus.
WARNING: Explicit photographs of art exhibit on page 6
TongQugwieandi
of racialiyjcharqe
lave been the targets
Si
Targets of ]
Crank Calls,
Hate E-mai
mHARASSMENT
by Liz Valsamis
QC News Editor
nd
n!-
of
Three female
two Chinese visit
received racist era
days after the raci
e-mail was sent to /
fessor of Sociolo
Hao [see QC Issue
The students—
Yang and sophoi
Chan and the third
did not want to be
and the visiting sch
Ping and Tong (
ceived the calls i
morning hours of \
12. The suspected p
male in all cases,!
identified.
"I think we ha
■ RELATED STORY
Hundreds of students, faculty
and staff turned out during last
week's Free Speech Friday to
rally around Asst. Professor of
Sociology Zhidong Hao several days after he received a
racially charged hate e-mail.
page 5
Millman To Leave Whittier in January;
Appointed President of Knox College
■ ADMINISTRATION
by Chris Ziegler
QC Editor-in-Chief
Provost and Dean of Faculty
Richard Millman will be leaving
Whittier College on Jan. 1, 1999
to assume his new position as President of Knox College in Gales-
burg, Illinois. The announcement
was made by the Board of Trustees on Friday, Oct. 16.
President James Ash, Jr. and
the Trustees will work with the
faculty and students to select an
interim Provost sometime during
the next few weeks. After Ash
retires, the suceeding College president will make a permanent Provost appointment.
Millman, who started at Whittier as Vice President of Academic
Affairs and Dean of Faculty in
1995 and is currently second only
to Ash in the administrative hierarchy, said that he always intended
to leave Whittier for a college pres-
Richard S. Millman.
idency after three to five years of
service to take what he called "the
next step up."
After rejecting several offers
from other colleges during his
Whittier career, Millman chose
Knox because of its scholastic
standards and the opportunity to
helm a multi-million dollar fund-
raising effort, he said. Like Whittier, Knox is engaged in a capital
campaign of its own, the $125
million "Knox Now" initiative.
| "I really wanted a liberal arts
I experience with a talented, dedi-
I cated faculty, which Whittier and
| Knox share," he said. "I knew the
1 high quality ofthe institution and
s that they wanted someone with
lots of academic background as
well as someone who wanted to
help with a capital campaign."
The top-level administrative
shake-ups could prove to be an
"excellent opportunity,"Ash said,
himself slated to leave Whittier
College at the end of the spring
semester.
"The College is financially
stable and all the indicators of
institutional health are positive,"
Ash said. "For that reason, I think
it's an ideal year for the College to
seek new leadership."
Millman will continue as
WhittierCollege Provost and Dean
of Faculty until the end ofthe fall
semester, though he is already
beginning to address his new pres-
See MILLMAN, page 7
Community Combats Campus Racism
■ ON CAMPUS
by Sonia Podvin
QCAsst. News Editor
In continued response to recent racially motivated expressions of hate on the Whittier College campus, concerned students
and faculty members spent
Wednesday, Oct. 21, attempting
to deal with the effects of the
incidents.
Every faculty member was
encouraged to administer a "Teach
In," either devoting the duration
of their class sessions to or at least
mentioning the recent social issues on the campus. Participation
by faculty members ranged from
leading heated discussions that
lasted through the class session to
merely conducting their classes
as usual.
Professors were also encouraged to promote students' attendance at a more informal "Teach
Out" forum on racism and dis-
Susanne Weil held class outdoors to discuss racial issues.
crimination in the Turner Hall
lounge at 7:00 p.m. on the evening
of Oct. 21. There students, faculty
and administration congregated to
explore active and permanent
ways to change campus sentiments
about discrimination.
The meeting included interdisciplinary faculty lectures on
racism and discrimination, student
discussion of change in small
groups and a candlelight march
across campus.
During the standard class
hours that were occupied by the
Teach-In, sociology, history and
language faculty members especially found occasion to integrate
their course material with the occurrences on the College campus.
In the Elementary Spanish class
of Assistant Professor of Modern
Language Doreen O'Connor-Gomez, the students discussed issues
of race and status in Latin American culture.
See RACISM page 7